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maybe a serious threat of military intervention would have done it.. but we drew imaginary dotted lines instead......


but, to me it sounds like everyone is happy so I say let it be...

+1 and no I don't think that we could've stopped it short of starting another un-winable war in an area of the world that we really don't want to start any wars.

The Crimea has been "in play" in that region since before the Byzantine Empire. Catherine the Great took the Crimea from the Ottoman Turks around 1780.

Besides our national debt is over 100% of GDP. I'm sure the Russians aren't worried what we think because they know what's left of our economy couldn't survive a war with a superpower even if, big big, no huge if, the U.S. citizenry supported it.

I'm not sure I like the idea of the USA being the arbiter of all elections worldwide.

oddly enough, I didn't mention the election. Simply don't believe any involving Russia (or N. Korea et al) are meaningful. Russia was taking advantage of the governmental turbulence in Ukraine no matter what...even if Mitt glared at them.

But I'm squeezing out your opinions finally and have learned two things now:

1) the media is anti democracy and pro-Russia
2) you want military intervention by the USA and feel that this Prez is a ***** and won't do it, but Palin is a tranny cuz she has ballz...
wait wait
but you also hate this Prez because he has been so warlike. He is warlike but Mitt and Palin would have scared Putin cuz they are more warlike.

Or am I confused by what you want USA to do in Ukraine?

Please, pick one side already.

OK, Frank, since you asked again, let me address the numbered items without being "bitter".

1) The drive-by media is portraying our Emporer fully clothed, move along, nothing to see here. The "pretend we're fair-and-balanced network" is simply stirring the pot, carefully inserting pictures and headlines that make some believe they're pro-conservative, yet in reality they provide so much opposing viewpoint, the line has become blurred. ALL media in the US with very little exception is as much to blame with the shape our country is in right now, as our corrupt politicians. Possibly more so, since they head up the perception department.

2) As previously stated, though likely obfuscated by talk of womens wear, I feel any one else (Ham Sammich?) would have carried enough respect in the office to have at least been perceived as being agressive enough to at least cast doubt as to the possible consequences in stealing a US-backed country. Bammys M.O. has him apologizing to Putin, promising further rollovers after the "election", then backing it all up with years of back-breaking deep bows to the rest of the world's oligarchs, whom he so envies.

You've invented the thought (or confused me with someone else's thinking) in feeling he's warlike at all. He's the antithesis IMHO, and because he inherited some action doesn't make it so, at least in my book. If he were capable of a poker face, Putin might only be grinning rather than doubled over in laughter. As it is, a game of Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots would leave him in tears, and its embarassing on the worlds stage. Not to mention a very real danger to our national security.

I read your contention through the repetitive question "what do you want him to do" that this certainly would have happened to whomever was resting their feet on the furniture at 1600 Pensylvania Ave. I disagree. I contend it wouldn't have happened to anyone BUT him. And since you don't seem to like that viewpoint, you continue to ask your question in a vindicative light. And I'm not buying in, sorry. But to answer the question in a literal sense, I want him to resign.

Hope this helps - sorry if a little bitter came out during the squeeze - but I tried.

so, you wanted a military response.
or you believe that another candidate would have been scary enough that Putin would have been intimidated.

Interesting.

I disagree.

It's cool... Klinger's gonna run over there and stare at Putin really mean and refuse to apologize for anything. He's pretty certain that's all it takes to keep him from invading any further.